The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-17
NO. IT
Trip THROUGH The sTArEs.n
Some Extracts from the Notes of n Dis
gruntled Englishman In America.

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Some Extracts from the Notes of n Dis
gruntled Englishman In America.
Every year some Englishman OF TN
other sort does the world in httl
volume or an article; and America wit
the rest. One of them has just bee
Through the States" in Fortnightly
He is fussy little wretch, who has com
over with his bundles and wraps, sir
and his overcoats and notions, you know
and he expects all the world to max
room for him, and see that he has frs
class comforts, and no interruptior
upon his British constitutionals, or the
will be a row, of course. Naturally
begins with his stomach. Il failed
discover any resemblance of comfort j
any of the ordinary American hotel
The bedrooms are furnished in a paltC
manner: the toilet utensils are of tli
commonest description (hair brushea
tooth brushes, etc., the gas bracket
invariably placed inconveniently Wi
regard to the looking-glass; and the S..
vice is Indifferent. In private you nevc
see retinul of servants and waite
such as we have in England. In vGl
the innocent traveller places his boots oG
side his bedroom door; no notice will b
taken of Il EN-. -Four meals a day a
prepared; md the cloth is practically lal
all day. You walk into a dining-roon
which is generally of immense size, az
the moment you cross the threshold
gigantic colored man snaps his fingers
you, waves his arms commandingly, an
assigns you a place at one of the table
He is ornamental, fussy and of very iii
tie use."
| This only begins the trouble. "Th
moment you have taken your seat ar
other negro rushes up and pours you
glass of iced water, which forms the uu
versal drink of Americans at meals. a
dinner, after the iced water, another
gro bends down over the traveller in av
full silence. The whole dinner must .
ordered at once, and it is all served
once" Here he gives us a specimen
one of his orders. Some oysters on th
half-shell, green turtle soup, some clau
chowder, some halibut steak; gree
goose and apple sauce; lambs frie
sweet potatoes; egg plant; succotasl
stewed tomatoes; Roquefort cheese
lemon pudding; cranberry pie; C ke
watermelon, and French bread" The
he complains that the negro does not IL
member his orders in full. IF you wis
to do at Rome as do the Romans you di
into this dish and into that dish, tastin'
of several simultaneously. The vast
fulness of the American system is ter
rible to think of And what a disgus
ing sight it is to see table full of pc
pie, each one behind his semi-circle bal
ricade of dishes, all of them gettin
cold, and all of them more or less in
mess.
And the crockery! and the knive.
Dishes and cups and saucers of the coag
est white pottery, very thick and heavE
and knives that have no cutting edo
but are silver-plated. The very be
coffee in the world will taste poor who
drunk out of cup quarter Of al in
thick; and reed-birds on toast, one of d.
American specialties, would taste sweoi
if served ON porcelain. Immediate an
thorough reform is needed in America
crockery.
His picture of Chicago is one of tho
soft, subdued lanscapes that we shoU.
expect him to write after devouring OF
of his bills of fare, ice-water and all, u
der the terrible eye Of that big negro
four times in one day. Even the dir
ness of Chicago is on grand scale; bu
in spite of the muddy, black streets, i
tered with refuse, the plank-foot-path
the yellow lake and the canals, the win
and rush, the howling newspaper boy
and the very mixed swarm of its inhs
itants, Chicago is most interesting plal
for Europeans to visit. OF cousre,
Chicago. as elsewhere in America, tl
, cultivated minority is lost in the swarr
ing multitude of coarse and vulgar pc
pie; and at night you find the streets {,
of long-limbed fellows, who wear thu
hats tilted back on the crown of th,
heads, too uncivilized TO do nothing, an
who pass their evenings chewing q,u.
: and toothpicks, with an underhand loO
, ON their countenances, indicative OF
readiness for fight at any moment"
He sees one thing in New York that
/ some trifling alienation. "The elevate
! railroad is ugly enough in itself; but
! stations, perched in the air, and q
preached by covered stairways, are real
pretty features in the street scenery
.he city-amusing in silhouette, aii
pleasant in contour and ornamen
This is not only delightful, it is soothm
1t is a sunnower; our national pride
once looks up-upto the elevated ~
way stations. 1t is sweet TO be ilattor
.. Here is more of it, II discovered on
one church in New York which has az
itectural merit throughout; one chur
which, so to speak, holds together o.
bears analysis"--that is, holds togeth
and bears picking to pieces. Il disc
; cred also but one house in Fifth aven
which seemed TO be above criticism. -
AZ. z. p" in Globe-Democrat.